the remains of a couple of theakston wagons are dumped outside. One of the things that saddens me is that following the fire/rebuild there doesn't seem to be a siding into the museum any more, so synolda is in the loco shed where you can't see her, rather than in pride of place in the museum. Bonnie...

I've always used acrylics, the gw ones are good, but the washes do dry a bit shiny. Not too much of a problem as I always give things a coat of Vallejo acrylic Matt varnish at the end. The rail match, Vallejo and gw acrylics can be mixed in my experience, but only use water to thin them. Alcohol wil...

stunningly done. the finish on the cheaper 3D materials is not ideal, so I shy away from it and use FUD on my stuff in O9, but 1:24 is approx 8 x the volume and therefore cost of 1:43.5, so the cheaper materials become more practical! Having said that, I haven't built anything, be it plastic, whitem...

further to the CW hunt information - if you have the Binns/Koch Meyer Articulated Locomotives book (ISBN 1.900095.07.6) on pages 95-96 there are a couple of illustrations and some details on a 21" gauge Meyer (they called it a duplex) 0440T that Hunt offered in their catalogues from 1889 to abo...

Wow, I was happy with the way the prints/design came out, but this is brilliant - love the faked valve gear. I did originally have the correct pattern valve wheels, but shapeways rejected them in 1/24 (despite accepting them in 1/43!?) so had to replace them with plainer ones.

just move the cylinders, not the mechanism Simon. Put a styrene extension onto the front of the bogie and fix the cylinders to that. Daniel Caso and myself are abusing a couple of these over on NGRM and he's worked out how to extend the axles for outside frames (his will be a 1/32 decauville mallet,...

I'm assuming the support framework is in the green bit on the side (nothing else seems to be in contact with the upper part). Is the top just carved foam like my old layout/a film set? If it was light enough then it shouldn't be too difficult. Visually impressive though.

I'm afraid designing a prototypical model, for an available rtr chassis, putting instructions online and test building one hasn't done me much good as There are only 3 of my Bagnall's in existence. Considering I spent a few months of spare time drawing and tweaking it, £30 of royalties isn't a very ...

An old forestry commission man once told me the way to wash your frying pan when camping out was to put it outside, away from your tent (at least 15ft, mainly so they don't try to come in) overnight. The Badgers will like it clean, removing the grease and pretty much any burnt on bits (according to ...

10.5mm doesn't get you much though - rtr track and wheelsets, plus some rather expensive chassis none of which would be appropriate for any of the 18" prototypes I know of. You're basically looking at a full scratchbuilt job, so may as well go to 1/48 (which is what peter kazer's sand hutton is...

I was modelling(as some others were) what became known as O9 before it became O9. For me it was more miniature than minimum gauge, and felt a bit peeved when kits(scale?) were introduced for the Horwich 18in gauge locos. I am no rivet counter but it gets me a bit when some of those who think they a...

Tom/Tebee wouldn't be able to produce the range of models he did if he'd had to test print each iteration. I work very differently - a finished high quality product as I basically only design for myself, so I don't mind having to print one. The key thing is Tebee is trying to make money from his ext...

I had about 10 projects lined up over my summer holidays. I've only done 2 of them, but have managed to do several others that weren't even on the radar at the start. Your locos and stock look fantastic. Between you and Jacky Molinaro I'm getting tempted to make myself another Gn15 Sipat (and keep i...

the F is on the door on one side, but Mr Salmond's likeness is not. I suspect that a large photo of a politician of any sort on the side of a train could put people off travelling... (it is rather clever though - well done whoever thought of it. The Darling version feels like a very poor unoriginal ...

Just to put Tom's (Tebee's) remarks into perspective a little, I've only sold 3 of my Bagnall Sipat class in Gn15. This is partly why I haven't ventured into Gn15 since if I'm honest. The other difficulty is that my own modelling is in O9, so at least with O9 when I test print it I have a use for th...

WSF definitely prints more accurately in x and y axis than z (tebee is the one who first brought that to my attention). Weirdly I find FD and FUD also differ - I ordered the same model (one of my non-NG designs) in FD and FUD, and the FD model is about 1mm shorter overall. From the same CAD?! If I'm...

those are some excellent beehives you've modelled there. I know that keepers use smoke to calm the bees a little before opening the hives but positioning them over a loco shed is lateral thinking indeed.

In heywood's locos (except the 4 coupled ones) the end axles were the flexible ones, so you'd get extra problems/wear trying to drive on those. I think that the longer con rod was used on slower goods locos so presumably there is an advantage - perhaps reduced hammer blow if the angle of con rod/cyl...

I know, they're massive! I'd be very interested in details of the other 18" locos kimberly had, as I don't think Olive and her sisters were the first. when you compare the small Bagnalls to other 18" locos, you understand why the staff at John Knowles thought Scout (their little bagnall) h...

thanks for posting this - I'm always happy to see people building my stuff! Shapeways have plenty of faults, but as a customer their service has always been very good if they get something wrong! Your locos look fantastic. I had a safety valve missing on the first print of my O9 version, so knocked ...

if you join the yahoo O9 and On18 group (I hate yahoo groups, but there are some interesting photos on there) Pete McP has a photo album on there with photos of the locos. I'm afraid they're not quite my thing, but the compressed air powered 040 he's working on is quite an interesting beast. He post...

there's a GA drawing in the Smithers 18" book (I think you have a copy, if not get in touch Henrik). on the net there are also a couple of drawings: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1438/1464100882_d8022351c0_o.jpg a side elevation from jay tilston on flickr and this copy of the GA from the blog d...